The Reason By Viva Lloyd Summary

There is one common theme that feminist has researched over the past decade has been a claim that the Reason is gendered. But more specifically, is the Reason either “male” or “masculine”? In Genevieve Lloyd thesis, she claims that the Reason is ‘male’ in a context of current philosophical debate and that it must unavoidably and that it summons up the idea that what is true or reasonable for men and how it might not be at all for women. The Reason in western culture is not only in the assessment of beliefs but an assessment of character.
Lloyd defends he thesis by explaining that the idea maleness and the femaleness have formed within the structure of dominance of the superiority and the inferiority and the male-female distinction has operated not as a straightforwardly but as a vivid principle of classification that expression in value. Lloyd also explains on the context of the association of maleness being a preferred trait but is it not just an incidental to the feminine and to the female trait. And with the female trait, it brings an importance to be aware of the “exclusion” of the feminine rejection.
In Descartes’s method, he uses the idea from Greek origins that is basic on the “method” that was followed the path of those goals that is understanding recurs in the entire philosophical tradition in which grew from Greek thoughts. Descartes has completely distorted the connection between the Reason and the in which has been central in the intelligent tradition since the time of Socrates. The reason why Lloyd included Descartes in her argument. To show the way that opened for a woman, however, this put a lesser presence on the Reason and how does the intellectual character interpret as balancing to the ‘male’